MRPeasy alternative

MRPeasy prices per seat. Your team isn't the problem.

MRPeasy is a capable cloud MRP with real depth in procurement, routing and quality control. The catch for a small manufacturer is structural, not functional: it bills per user. The moment production, purchasing and the books are three different people, you're paying three times for the same system. Stocksmith is flat per plan, whoever logs in.

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Know what to make and what to buy

What to make next this week

Product	Open orders	Can build
Lavender Body Butter 200ml	96	120
Vitamin C Serum 30ml	140	38
Charcoal Face Bar	60	300

Serum short by 102 — reorder L-ascorbic acid

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Heads up: We make Stocksmith, so we're obviously biased. MRPeasy's own pricing page is linked below so you can check the figures, and there's a section on when MRPeasy is genuinely the better buy — because for some operations it is.

TL;DR — The short version

MRPeasy is a full MRP for a factory that runs on routing and work centres. Stocksmith is a costing-and-inventory system for a business that makes things in batches. Pick by which of those describes your day.

Stocksmith is a better fit if you…

✓ Have more than one person who needs access
✓ Make in batches from recipes rather than routing through stations
✓ Need cost per unit and tax-ready COGS more than you need capacity planning
✓ Sell across several sales channels from one stock pool
✓ Want to be running properly this week, not after a configuration project

MRPeasy is a better fit if you…

→ Need work centres, operation routing and capacity scheduling
→ Want CRM and procurement inside the same system
→ Run formal quality control with serial numbers and RMA handling
→ Are a single operator, where per-seat pricing costs you nothing extra
→ Make discrete goods — electronics, machinery, devices — not batch products

What MRPeasy does well

It's a serious MRP, and pretending otherwise wouldn't help you decide.

Real production planning

Work centres, operation routing, capacity scheduling and multi-level routing between stages. If your product moves through discrete operations with timings attached to each, this is the category of tool built for it — and Stocksmith isn't in that category.

Procurement and CRM in the box

Supplier management, purchase planning, customer records and quoting all live inside MRPeasy. For an operation that wants one system rather than a stack, that consolidation has genuine value.

Quality control and serial tracking

Quality control workflows, serial number tracking and returns handling. For regulated discrete manufacturing — medical devices, electronics, machined components — these aren't nice-to-haves and MRPeasy takes them seriously.

A generous trial

MRPeasy offers 15 days free, extendable by another 15, with no credit card. That's a fair window to test a system this configurable, and longer than most of the category gives you.

The per-seat problem

This is the whole reason most people end up on a page like this one, so it's worth doing the arithmetic properly rather than gesturing at it.

MRPeasy's tiers are priced per user, per month: Starter at $49, Professional at $69, Enterprise at $99 and Unlimited at $149 — with the Unlimited tier requiring at least two users. From the eleventh user onward it switches to $79 per ten users, which helps large teams and does nothing for small ones.

The effect is that the cost of an MRP scales with your headcount rather than with your production. That's backwards for a small manufacturer, where adding a second pair of hands is how you grow and the software shouldn't tax it. A three-person operation on the entry tier pays roughly what a single operator pays on the top tier.

Who needs access	MRPeasy Starter, per month	Stocksmith Studio, per month
Just you	$49	$41 billed annually
You + one production assistant	$98	$41 billed annually
Production, purchasing and bookkeeping	$147	$41 billed annually
A five-person team	$245	$41 billed annually

MRPeasy column is its Starter tier at its published per-user rate, multiplied by seats; higher MRPeasy tiers cost more per seat. Rates per mrpeasy.com/pricing, checked 28 August 2026 — verify there before deciding. Stocksmith Studio includes unlimited team members; see our pricing page for what each tier covers.

MRPeasy vs Stocksmith — side by side

MRPeasy's Starter tier against Stocksmith Indie — roughly comparable entry points for a small manufacturer, once you account for how differently they scale.

	MRPeasy — Starter	Stocksmith — Indie
Pricing model	Per user, per month	Flat per plan
Entry price	$49 per user (MRPeasy Starter)	$83/mo billed annually, any number of users
Trial	15 days, extendable to 30, no card	14 days, no card
Bills of materials	✔️ With operation routing	✔️ Multi-level, with cost roll-up
Batch manufacturing	✔️ Via manufacturing orders	✔️ Record a batch, materials deduct
Cost per unit & COGS	✔️ Cost tracking	✔️ Tax-ready COGS, syncs to QuickBooks
Batch & lot traceability	✔️	✔️ With expiry dates
Multi-channel sales sync	Limited — via API or middleware	✔️ Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, Faire, Woo, Square
Work centres & capacity planning	✔️	Not available
CRM & procurement modules	✔️	Purchasing only, no CRM
Quality control & serial numbers	✔️ On higher tiers	Lot-level, not serial-level
Setup effort	Configuration project — routing, work centres	Materials and recipes, first session

MRPeasy figures and feature gating per mrpeasy.com/pricing, checked 28 August 2026; some capabilities sit on Professional, Enterprise or Unlimited rather than Starter. Stocksmith prices from our pricing page.

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Where Stocksmith is the stronger tool

Costing built for recipes, not routings

If you make a batch of 200 from a formula, the useful question is what a unit cost — including yield loss, labour, and what you actually paid for materials last month. Stocksmith answers that without you modelling a single work centre.

Multi-level bills of materials with nested sub-assemblies
Weighted-average material costs that update as prices move
Tax-ready COGS, with a one-way sync into QuickBooks
Margin visible per product, not just per invoice

Cost & margin per unit

Materials$3.10

Labour$0.80

Overhead$0.28

True cost per unit$4.18

Sell price$18.00

Gross margin76.8%

Material price up? Your margin recalculates instantly

Multi-channel selling, handled natively

MRPeasy is built around a factory shipping to trade customers, so consumer sales channels come via the API or middleware. If you sell on Shopify and Etsy and wholesale through Faire, Stocksmith pulls all of it into one stock pool without an integration project.

Orders import, stock adjusts, COGS updates. One number for what you have, whichever channel sold it.

Order activity Syncing

Shopify

Order #1043 · 3 items

2 min ago

stock −3

Faire

Wholesale · 24 units

18 min ago

stock −24

Amazon

Order 114-220 · 1 item

1 hr ago

Low: Serum

One stock count across every channel

Running this week, not next quarter

A full MRP asks you to describe your factory before it can help you: work centres, routings, operation times. That's the right trade for a factory. For a small-batch operation it's a project that stalls, and a stalled system is worse than a spreadsheet.

Stocksmith needs your materials and your recipes. Import the first, build a couple of the second, and you have a real cost per unit in the first session — plus a 30-minute onboarding call included on every plan.

Inventory Live

Item	On hand	Status
Lavender Body Butter 200ml	412	In stock
Amber glass jar, 200ml	1,240	In stock
Vitamin C Serum 30ml	38	Low
Shea butter, refined	6.2 kg	In stock

Raw materials and finished goods, always current

When MRPeasy is genuinely the better choice

We'd rather lose the sale than have you fight the wrong tool for a year.

You route work through stations

If production means a part moving through cutting, machining, assembly and finishing with a time and a capacity at each, you need operation routing. MRPeasy has it, Stocksmith doesn't, and no amount of good costing substitutes.

You're a single operator

Per-seat pricing only hurts when you have seats. If it's just you and MRPeasy's depth appeals, one Starter seat is a reasonable buy and the whole argument on this page mostly evaporates.

You need serial numbers and formal QC

Stocksmith traces by lot and batch. If you must trace individual units by serial number, or run structured quality-control gates and RMA workflows, MRPeasy's higher tiers are built for that and we're not a substitute.

You want CRM in the same system

Stocksmith handles purchasing but has no CRM. If consolidating customer records, quotes and production into one login is the point of the exercise, MRPeasy does that and we'd be adding a tool rather than removing one.

Also comparing Katana? See Katana vs MRPeasy head to head, or Katana alternatives for small manufacturers.

Stocksmith connects everywhere you sell

Import orders automatically and sync stock levels across all your channels — so you never oversell or run out of stock.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How much does MRPeasy cost, and how does that compare to Stocksmith?

MRPeasy is priced per user, per month — Starter $49, Professional $69, Enterprise $99, Unlimited $149, dropping to $79 per ten users past the tenth seat. Stocksmith is flat per plan regardless of how many people log in. So the comparison depends entirely on team size: for one person the two are close, and for a three-person operation MRPeasy's entry tier lands around $147/month while a Stocksmith plan with unlimited team members doesn't move. Figures from mrpeasy.com/pricing, checked 28 August 2026.

Is Stocksmith a full MRP system like MRPeasy?

No, and it's worth being straight about that. MRPeasy is a full MRP: work centres, operation routing, capacity planning, CRM, formal quality control. Stocksmith is a manufacturing inventory and costing system — multi-level bills of materials, batch production, material-level stock, traceability, automatic COGS and multi-channel order sync. For most small-batch manufacturers that second list is the actual job. If you need the first list, buy the MRP.

Does Stocksmith support multi-level bills of materials?

Yes — multi-level bills of materials with nested sub-assemblies, material quantities and automatic cost roll-up, so a component that is itself manufactured carries its own cost upward. The difference from MRPeasy is approach rather than depth of the BOM: MRPeasy attaches operation routing and work-centre capacity to each level, which suits a production floor. Stocksmith keeps the structure and drops the routing, which suits batch production from recipes.

Can Stocksmith sync orders from Shopify, Etsy and Amazon?

Yes. Stocksmith connects natively to Shopify, Etsy, Amazon, WooCommerce, Wix, Square, PayPal and Faire. Orders import, stock deducts across every channel from one pool, and COGS updates as they do. MRPeasy is designed around a manufacturer shipping to trade customers, so consumer marketplace sync generally goes through its API or third-party middleware — workable, but it's an integration you own rather than a setting you switch on.

How long does it take to get set up compared with MRPeasy?

MRPeasy expects you to model your operation first — work centres, routings, operation times — which is why it offers a 15-plus-15-day trial rather than a fortnight. Stocksmith needs your materials and your recipes: import materials from CSV, build a couple of bills of materials, record one batch, and you have a real cost per unit. Most people get that far in their first session, and a 30-minute onboarding call is included on every plan if you'd rather do it with someone.

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